nRF Connect SDK VS Code extension passes CMake arguments from presets incorrectly

[nrbrook]

I have a preset stored in CMakePresets.json:

...
{
            ...
            "cacheVariables": {
                ...
                "SB_CONFIG_PARTITION_HEX_INPUT_FILES": "\\${APPLICATION_CONFIG_DIR}/provisioning_data_hid.json"
            }
        }

When I go to create a new build configuration with the preset, the extension creates an Extra CMake Arguments row with:

-DSB_CONFIG_PARTITION_HEX_INPUT_FILES='"\${APPLICATION_CONFIG_DIR}/provisioning_data_hid.json"'

It has added '"..."' to the value. When this is used to build it becomes:

west build ... -DSB_CONFIG_PARTITION_HEX_INPUT_FILES='"'"\${APPLICATION_CONFIG_DIR}/provisioning_data_hid.json"'"'

Now it has four pairs of quotes.

If I remove both single and double quotes in the Add Build Configuration panel, it builds correctly. So it seems that the extension is adding the quotes unnecessarily.

[Hung Bui]

Hi Nick, 

Could you please add the screenshots of VSCode board configuration , one is the default that fail and the other is the one that you modified to make it build. 
For the double quote, I usually use \" 

For example:
-DSB_CONFIG_REMOTE_BOARD=\"nrf54h20dk/nrf54h20/cpurad\"

[nrbrook]

After selecting the preset:

Runs the following command and fails:

Fixed:

Resulting command:

Adding escaped quotes into the value in my CMakePresets.json just results in an extra pair of quotes in the west command, which doesn't resolve the issue.